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• I can manage esxi 4.1 update 1 and esxi virtual cenetr 5 4.1 update 1?

  Hello world

  I want to know that if I have 10 physical servers that run esxi 4.1 update1 and managed with virtual Center 4.1 update 1 and I will equip 4 esxi licenses 5 and I've not modernize 10 servers now can I manage all servers (10 esxi 4.1 u1 & esxi 4 5) by u1 cenetr virtual 4.1?

  BR

  Ashraf Ali

  No, to manage ESXi 5.0 hosts, you must have vCenter 5.

  See http://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide/sim/interop_matrix.php

  André

• Total physical memory and the total virtual memory

  Hello

  When I checked the repressive information of my laptop computer on which Windows XP SP3 installed, I discovered that RAM is of approximately:

  Total physical memory: 2.048 MB
  Available physical memory: 1.32 GB

  Total virtual memory: 2 GB
  Total available memory: 1.96 GB

  As this screen shot in Arabic shows:

  

  I don't really know what mean these four memories.

  It would be very much appreciated

  Physical memory is actual RAM that is installed inyour PC is fast enough with respect to access to the data

  Virtual memory is not physical in terms that you can't touch it or remomve it. Vitutal is a section of hard disk space unused which is used on-site for faster physical memory that your PC does not have memory.

  Because the hard drive is slower interms of access data to physical memory, your PC will see improved performance by adding or replacing existing physical memory with amounts more or more (512 MB or more)

  Virtual memory allows your computer to always run, but at a slower speed when you run applications that have used all of the physical memory. Remember, even before starting a program already running the operating system and other services which each allocate a block of physical memory for themselves. You can see exactly how much is used by pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL and display of the process tab and the performance tab.

  You can easily determine what your need to add to your PC memory by visiting a site like Crucial.com which allows you to scan your pc for the type of memory used.

• Computer configuration virtual for SRM - files from memory Swap file/Virtual - best practice replication?

  Hello, I am very new to the model DR VMWare and have a few persistent questinos.

  What is the recommended best practice re: virtual computers invited windows and virtual memory files.  I think it would be unnecessary to replicate these changing data on the DR site.  I have several virtual machines with 6-8gig memory and I'm just wondering how can I isolate the ESX memory swap files and virtual memory in Windows feedback, so they get not replicated on the Dr site as often as changing os/data.  If it's even necessary to replicate.

  We use vspere vcenter 4.1 related modes, RS 4.1 the two on-site Cellera NX4 ReplicatorV2.

  I wonder if I can install the files of pages to be in a condition NOT replicated file system or a file system which is the only value replicates every 24 hours, or once a week.

  My reasoning here is.  Once the file is there, the operating system really cares about the changes in this file and dumps windows virtual memory on a restart, as well as the .vswp file.

  what I mean is built on a virtual disk full and placing the windows file on this virtual disk to Exchange.  This virtual disk could exist in a data store hosted on a celerra file system that does not get repeated as frequently as data/OS file systems.

  or am I completely off base here.

  I think that if you tried to reproduce these files and maintain a sync time minute 10, you would need a ton of bandwidth.

  any suggestions or recommendations or even pointers to Articles/items worth points = D.

  Thanks for your time.

  Given that the configuration is made at the level of the cluster and has no impact on the SRM, replication is not a factor.  Don't forget, not to replicate the LUNS with the swap, just files have a LUN configuration on the side of recovery as well and have this defined cluster Exchange files.  Also, on the virtual machine critical we define reservations memory so the pagefile is not a factor at all.

  Kind regards...

  Jamie

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• Connect physical hard disks to the virtual machine (and leave the data intact)

  Hello

  I'm looking to virtualize a SOHO headless server, that I use mainly for secure file storage.

  Currently, the system runs Linux installed on a small disc and has two drives 1.5 TB, used exclusively for data, in a cluster of ZFS mirroring. (I use the ZFS-fuse Linux-based application).

  I want virtualization for two reasons. One is to make administration easier and safer - avoid having to connect a keyboard and the physical monitor to the box from time to time. The other is that the machine is a bit more powerful to handle the load, and I'm hoping to make it work on other, more challenging tasks.

  Now, there is a catch. These discs are as highly important. I mean the data on them. What I need is to convert the current Linux system to a virtual machine, or re - install Linux on a virtual machine (don't like that), then connect the physical disks to the virtual machine as if they were actually connected.

  I certainly don't want to vmware touches those disks somehow.

  I've read the documentation, but I'm a noob when it comes to server virtualization and system engineering and don't quite understand if this is possible or not. These discs are not a SAN, they are physically connected to the server, I want to install vSphere on. (Of course, I'll log out when I run the setup of vSphere. But I need plug them again later, and they need to be sure that vmware will leave them alone and pass them to the virtual machine transparent.)

  Sigmoid wrote:

  Oh yes, the cluster mirrored ZFS. It is essentially a software RAID type thingie.

  http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS

  A material, or the point of view of virtualization, it appears two hard drives with a single huge partition on each that is not transparent to anyone, except the implementation of ZFS.

  OK, means that you can break the RAID, connect the drives to different host and configure RAID once again, right?

  Let's do it this way

  1. We will need a disc player more for VM, cause on flash, we install ESXi
  2. I will share ZFS :-), all you need to do with that before you install ESXi
  3. make the BACKUP!
  4. Disconnect the data host drives
  5. install ESXi 4.1 U1 free version on flash
  6. Download the site VMware vSphere client
  7. Connect the VM disk to ESXi
  8. customer help create the virtual machine and install the OS on it
  9. stop the virtual machine and esxi
  10. connect DATA drives to the ESXi host
  11. begin to ESXi
  12. See how to add RDM on youtube, after client use, change first hardware VM--> add a new hard disk--> choose Raw Device Mapping--> (physical or virtual) mode--> store it with folder VM - FACT
  13. Start the virtual machine, now your VM should see both drives, with good data course :-)

  I have just made this procedure (add ROW with data in Linux VM) on ubuntu VM, works well

  See you soon
  Artur
  

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• Single user, working on both machines, best practical question

  I use Dreamweaver at home and at work.  I'm working on my sites only.  I have just started working with DW and don't know the best practice to achieve.  The way I do now is through a folder synchronized on both machines that hosts the site.  The establishment is a local folder on the two machines that automatically syncs on the WWW.  I created a site on my machine at home with a folder root for the site and the images and then created another site on my work machine and was pointing at the root sync folders.  Is the best practice for this set to the top.

  I guese that im afraid of is the feature of auto update of links and such to within DW.

  Thank you!

  I have the same configuration and DW Check In / Check Out feature works for me.

  This requires a local copy of the site on home and work machines more copy remotely on the web.

  I have check no matter what files I need to work, modify and then download and archive when I'm done.

  DW manages everything.

• Best practices to configure NLB for Secure Gateway and Web access

  Hi team,

  I'm vworksapce the facility and looking for guidance on best practices on NLB with webaccess and secure gateway. My hosted environment is Hyper-v 2012R2

  My first request is it must be configure NLB, firstly that the role of set up or vice versa.

  do we not have any document of best practice to configure NLB with 2 node web access server.

  Hello

  This video series has been created for 7.5 and 2008r2 but must still be valid for what you are doing today:

  https://support.software.Dell.com/vWorkspace/KB/87780

  Thank you, Andrew.

• Best practices for the Vm disk partitioning

  I want to create a server of Windows 2012 by c:\ and d:\ partitions what the best practice it is btw SQL database server. Should I create a hd c: and then add another hd d:\ all on the same data store. I read that the use of applications and partitioning tools is more metal applications for real and to create a virtual machine two separate readers would be too easy and better recovery or future expansion on the drive.

  Thank you

  Mike

  Note: Discussion moved successfully to vSphere SDK comments on Virtual Machine & Guest OS
  Yes, create a separate virtual disk (VMDK) for each partition or volume under Windows. If the workload is light - to begin with, you can leave all VMDK in working area of the virtual machine and then if you need to divide the discs in different data stores you can do it later.
  What can talk you about your workload and virtual infrastructure you have - you what version of vSphere are registered for the?

• Best practices for managing strategies of path

  Hello

  I get conflicting advice on best practices for managed paths.

  We are on version 4.0 of ESXi connection to a HP EVA8000. Best practices guide HP recommends setting the strategy of railways handle on Round Robin.

  This seems to give two active paths to the optimized controller. See: http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA1-2185ENW.pdf

  We used certain consultants and they say that the best practices of Vmware for this solution is to use the MRU policy which translates a single path to the optimized controller.

  So, any idea what good practice is best practice? Does make a difference?

  TIA

  Rob.

  Always go with the recommendation of the storage provider.  VMware recommendation is based on the characteristics of the generic array (controller, capable ALUA failover methods, etc.).  The storage provider's recommendation is based on their performance and compatibility testing.  You may want to review their recommendations carefully, however, to ensure that each point is what you want.

  With the 8000, I ran with Round-Robin.  This is the option of creating more robust paths available to you from a failover and performance point of view and can provide performance more even through the ports on the storage controller.

  While I did of the specific tests/validation, the last time that I looked at the docs, the configuration of HP recommends that you configure each IO to the ports in the switch configuration.  This adds the charge to the ESX host, the switch to other ports, but HP claims that their tests showed that it is the optimal configuration.  It was the only parameter I wondered in their recommendation.

  If you haven't done so already, be sure to download the HP doc on configuring ESX and EVA bays.  There are several parameters that you must configure the policy path, as well as a few scripts to help make the changes.

  Virtualization of happy!

  JP

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• The best practices with only 4 cards network network

  I'm used to esx with fiber channel without configuration.  This will be my first experience connecting esx to an iscsi san.

  I just have 4 network cards on the server and wonder what is the best practice.

  I think that 2 of the 4 network cards will be dedicated to the San for HA.

  But the other 2 types of throw me a loop for.

  I know I want to console, vmotion and trunk for VLANs, but I don't think I can have all 3 on the same vswitch?

  Am I stuck with having the console and vmotion on a network card and the trunk of the other?  IE - no failover?

  Is there anyway to get console, vmotion and trunk at all exist together?

  Thank you in advance.

  If it were an election, I vote for Josh26

  Just a few additions to his recommendation:

  vSwitch0:

  2 natachasery connected to the ports of the trunk on the pSwitch (vmnic0, vmnic1)

  Service - VLANxxx - Portgroup (vmnic0, vmnic1 active standby) Console

  VMkernel Portgroup for vMotion - VLANyyy - (vmnic0 vmnic1 standby, active)

  Machine Virtual Network - VLANzzz - (vmnic0, vmnic1 active standby)

  vSwitch1:

  2 natachasery (vmnic2, vmnic3)

  VMkKernel Portgroup for iSCSI

  With the above configuration you separate iSCSI traffic, what is most important.

  SC and the VM network share a teddy and vMotion has its dedicated Teddy.

  Everything is redundant.

  André

• Best practices to create a sandbox

  Would like to create a sandbox in an ESX 4 server and would like to know best practices to do this. Thank you.

  Depends on what you're trying to do - if you want to create an isolated test environment, then you can do this very easily by creating a vSwitch and by not assigning any physical NETWORK adapter. The virtual machine you want to isolate can be connected to the vSwitch and they will not be able to communicate with any other Vm except those that connect you to the vSwitch.

  As there is no LAN connectivity, a user would need the client VMware or delegated access via vCenter to access the VM.s.

  Don't forget to leave some points for messages useful/correct.

• "Insufficient minimum virtual memory.

  I received a message 'not enough minimum virtual memory.

  My C drive 20315 MB of available space and the Initial value of 384-768 Max.

  My G drive 60116 MB of available space and nothing put on, should I put something on the G drive or just the C drive?

  Let Windows manage your swap file.

  To manually change the size of virtual memory, follow these steps:

  1. Click Start , click run , type sysdm.cpl in the Open box, and then press ENTER.
  2. Click the Advanced tab, and then under Performance click settings .
  3. Click the Advanced tab, and then under virtual memory , click change .
  4. Under [Drive] , click the drive that contains the swap file that you want to change. (This will be your C:\ drive.)
  5. Under for the selected drive paging file size , set this to allow Windows to manage the page file and then click define .
  6. Click OK to close the dialog box and apply the changes.

  After you change the size of the paging file, you may be prompted to restart Windows. If you are prompted to restart, the changes will not take effect until Windows is restarted.

  If this does not help OR your swap file is already managed by Windows, you have too many programs/processes that run in the background. They could be legitimate or malicious.

  1. start making sure that the computer is completely virus/malware-free:
  http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

  2. If the computer is clean - and only when you are sure that it is clean - manage your Startup:

  Start > run > msconfig [Enter]

  This will open the System Configuration utility. Look under the Startup tab and find the likely culprit. Uncheck the box next to its name, apply and OK out. You don't need to restart immediately, but next time you do, you will get a dialog box saying that you have used the utility. Just check the box that says in effect, "don't mind to this subject again".

  Important - do not use the System Configuration utility to stop the process. Use rather Start > Run > services.msc [Enter] and stop all services unless you really, really know what you're doing.

  How to troubleshoot by using the Msconfig in Windows XP utility - http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560
  The free Autoruns program is very useful for managing your Startup - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx

  If you don't know what something is, Google his name to see details.

  If you can't do the work yourself (and there is no shame in admitting this isn't your cup of tea), take the machine to a professional computer repair shop (not your local equivalent of BigComputerStore/GeekSquad). If possible, have all your data backed up before taking the machine into a shop.

  MS - MVP - Elephant Boy computers - don't panic!

• my computer continues to run out of virtual memory

  I deleted programs and defragged my computer.

  To make sure that we are talking about the same thing.

  Exactly how do you know that you run 'Virtual memory' specifically?

  Virtual memory is actually a 'swap file' specially allocated space on the hard drive. Most of the facilities have it set to automatically expand and shrink as needed. If freeing space on your hard disk and Defrag is reasonable.

  The amount of used and free space on the hard drive you have?

  You should also check the amount of virtual memory allocated.

  1. Open the 'System' using the shortcut dialog
  2. Notice how ' installed memory (RAM): "you have.

  3. Press or click on advanced system settings. You may be prompted for an administrator password or to confirm your choice.

  4. On the Advanced tab, under performance, tap or click settings.

  5. Press or click the Advanced tab, and then under virtual memory, press or click on modify.

  6. Claire runs it automatically the size of pagefile for all drives check box.

  7. Under drive [Volume label], tap or click the drive that contains the paging file that you want to change.

  8. Press or click Custom size, type a new size in megabytes in the initial size (MB) or maximum size (MB) box, type or click on set and then press or click OK.

  In general, the recommendations are that you should have 1 to 3 times your RAM memory allocated to virtual memory.   If I have enough free space on the hard drive, I personally prefer the size of the max and min even swap file.

  Originally, in the 1980s and the beginning of the 90s HD space is at a premium and so was RAM (I paid $5000 for my first computer with 2 MB RAM and 80 MB of free disk space!). It made sense to let the system allocate more swap file space according to the needs, and then free it up. But this approach also has the effect of fragmenting the HD.  Now ship computers with RAM that is literally orders of magnitude larger than at the time and so are HD, in fact, if you have lots of RAM, say more than 4 GB for a home user, I've seen some recommendations to minimize the size of the swap file. These same days budget computers come with more than enough disk space that continuously allocate enough virtual memory is not a constraint.

  If you set a constant pagefile size, it's probably a good idea to defragment the paging file too. This requires special tools to defragmentation.

  FYI: this is the wrong forum and category to ask this question. You should ask her in the Windows forum.

• How to configure virtual memory

  original title: can I have a virtual memory support on my LE1600 motion tablet that has a recent clean install of Windows XP with all the driver updated day and MAX Ram installed and activated?

  About virtual memory size

  Control Panel > system > Advanced tab > Performance - Settings button > button change tab advanced - virtual memory box - > choices are

  -Custom size

  -System Managed Size (checked)

  -No pagefile

  It is said that size is 5120 MB

  -minimal allowed 2 MB

  -Recommended 2287 MB

  -Run 1 525 MB

  System just told me it's too small and it's not the it and if I want to find out more, look in help. But there is no help button. Only the button is OK

  Please tell me if there is SOMETHING I can do. I'm really tired of this computer runs slowly in time and ignoring the mouse input. And I am sure that I have no malware problem. Perhaps he too little RAM for what is happening? I have the max ram installed and activated, which can be accessed at http://www.memoryx.net/mocolectapcm.html

  Please could I have a few tips specific given by someone so me (a person of no pc specialist) can I try to fix this problem without spending money I don't have or sending it anywhere be it fixed because I can not afford to do so, but I need to work a lot faster. It has always been a slow Tablet but now it is sometimes ridiculous. Sometimes it's 'OK', but it is not ALWAYS admirable.

  Windows works the way it is supposed to work.  How much memory is being used by the system and applications running exceeds the sum of physical memory (RAM) and the file for the current page, Windows automatically increases the size of the page file (unless your hard drive is close to full).  The message you see Windows reacts to a heavy load on your system - it is not the result to set the filename of the page.

  When the message says: "Look in the help", you should do it.  Click Start > Help and Support, and then type
  virtual memory
  in the search box.  Look for the section titled "Managing your computer's performance."

  A good explanation of how Windows XP deals with 'virtual memory' starts here--> http://www.theeldergeek.com/paging_file.htm in particular, you should read the section on 'Sizing page file'

  If your system is slow, it is because it is overloaded or with applications that you run intentionally malicious (you do not give the basis of your belief that you are sure that you don't have a malware problem).  Take a look at the processes listed in the Task Manager.  Do you know what they all are?  Do you really need for each of them to run?  Those who take the biggest percentage of cycles CPU?  Don't bother looking at the 'memory' column - which will really help you in determining which slows things.

  If your system is like most, you'll probably multiple instances of svchost.exe running.  It's normal.  You can use Process Explorer to see what svchost is doing (details here http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/list-services-running-under-svchost.exe-process/) but you can try this first easy way:

  Open a command prompt window (start > run > cmd > OK)
  In the black command prompt window, type the following line and press enter

  Tasklist/SVC /fi "imagename eq svchost.exe".

  [This is an 'eye' tiny 'eff' after the slash - abbreviation for filter]

  You will get a list like this:

  Image name PID Services
  ========================= ====== =============================================
  Svchost.exe 1148 DcomLaunch, TermService
  Svchost.exe 1248 RpcSs
  Svchost.exe 1340 AudioSrv, BITS, browser, CryptSvc, Dhcp,
  DmServer, EventSystem,
  FastUserSwitchingCompatibility, helpsvc,
  HidServ, lanmanserver, lanmanworkstation,
  NetMan, Nla, RasMan, schedule, seclogon,
  MEANING, SharedAccess, ShellHWDetection,
  Srservice, TapiSrv, themes, W32Time,
  WinMgmt, wscsvc, wuauserv, WZCSVC
  Svchost.exe 1388 Dnscache
  Svchost.exe 1460 LmHosts
  Svchost.exe 464 WebClient
  Svchost.exe 3328 Net Driver HPZ12
  Svchost.exe 3456 Pml Driver HPZ12

  For more information on these 'services' look here--> http://www.blackviper.com/service-configurations/black-vipers-windows-xp-x86-32-bit-service-pack-3-service-configurations/

  or use Google or ask in an answer here.  FWIW, all names in the list above are OK (although several are not really necessary).

• Minimum virtual memory is insufficient to start using XP home. Can Msn check my registry database?

  My system is very slow start. It's a Dell Demension 10 years using XP home/SP3 8200. The processor remains active for more than an hour and I get "virtual memory minimum insufficient' guard and auto MSN it increases... I use the free "Windows Live One Care" supposedly take care of my system. My small research made allusion to the 'Registry cleaning tools' need to reset virtual memory by using Msconfig to complex for me to understand and achieve. Is it remotely possible or can MSN send me something simple to achieve this?

  Webcam Live One Care is no longer avaialable: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/security-essentials/onecare?SignedIn=1

  I don't suggest you use Registry cleaners: http://www.edbott.com/weblog/2005/04/why-i-don ' t-use - Registry cleaners /

  Fix low virtual memory warning: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-performance/low-virtual-memory-warning-message-windows-xp/135d4a57-aa30-4a10-9401-883e0a7cc0af

  I think adding RAM to your model that Dell is not recommended because it is not too profitable... you could check with Crucial.com.

  Did you spring for a new computer?

  Good luck...